The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery
Bringing together apparently opposing modern and post-modern approaches to interpretation is one of the challenges that lie ahead for rock-art studies. This endeavour may help to surmount ‘no interpretation is possible’ stances (see Bednarik, 2014) and to value rock-art as a diverse and complex phen...
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| description | Bringing together apparently opposing modern and post-modern approaches to interpretation is one of the challenges that lie ahead for rock-art studies. This endeavour may help to surmount ‘no interpretation is possible’ stances (see Bednarik, 2014) and to value rock-art as a diverse and complex phenomenon where precise significance is concealed within multiple meaning-carrying conveyors. The idea that different rock-art traditions (as with any other art form) made use of a given set of symbols (also) aiming to enforce an ‘imagined’ order is instrumental to the present paper. Ancient imagery, despite precise production contexts, materializes the need to resort to visual symbols in order to help maintain social concord, regardless of exact meaning. However, this is a dynamic process; whenever there is an effort to uphold a certain set of moral and social complying principles, there are also nonconformist and subversive attempts to challenge and mutate that same collection of rules. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-570bce97f13d48e0be25d1be687215c52022-12-21T21:35:27ZengDe GruyterOpen Archaeology2300-65602018-05-014128029810.1515/opar-2018-0017opar-2018-0017The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive ImageryFernandes António Batarda0Côa Park Foundation, 5150-620 Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal/Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science, Bournemouth University, UK/Investigador Integrado Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, PortugalBringing together apparently opposing modern and post-modern approaches to interpretation is one of the challenges that lie ahead for rock-art studies. This endeavour may help to surmount ‘no interpretation is possible’ stances (see Bednarik, 2014) and to value rock-art as a diverse and complex phenomenon where precise significance is concealed within multiple meaning-carrying conveyors. The idea that different rock-art traditions (as with any other art form) made use of a given set of symbols (also) aiming to enforce an ‘imagined’ order is instrumental to the present paper. Ancient imagery, despite precise production contexts, materializes the need to resort to visual symbols in order to help maintain social concord, regardless of exact meaning. However, this is a dynamic process; whenever there is an effort to uphold a certain set of moral and social complying principles, there are also nonconformist and subversive attempts to challenge and mutate that same collection of rules.https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0017côa valleyrock-artupper palaeolithicsubversioncreativity |
| spellingShingle | Fernandes António Batarda The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery Open Archaeology côa valley rock-art upper palaeolithic subversion creativity |
| title | The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery |
| title_full | The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery |
| title_fullStr | The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery |
| title_short | The Entrapment of Art: Rock-Art, Order, Subversion, Creativity, Meaning, and the Appeal of Illusive Imagery |
| title_sort | entrapment of art rock art order subversion creativity meaning and the appeal of illusive imagery |
| topic | côa valley rock-art upper palaeolithic subversion creativity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0017 |
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